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Photograph of a sunbather in Brooklyn Bridge Park during toastier times earlier this week by Fists With Your Toes on Flickr

From the Gothamist Newsmap: a capsized boat on Terrace St. and King Ave. in the Bronx, a bank robbery at the Chase Bank on Myrtle Ave. in Queens and a jumper down on Madison St. in Manhattan.
A court upheld a Department of Education rule barring teachers from wearing political buttons while leading class.
The city has agreed to pay $3.5 million to a man wrongfully imprisoned for 12 years after being charged with attempted murder.
A Queens teenager whose iPhone was stolen from his locker was able to recover it after he discovered someone trying to resell it on Craigslist.
Hedge fund manager who made a 866 percent return betting against the subprime mortgage collapse shut down his company and sent out this f*** you lettter.
A Newsday reporter, who joined a bone marrow registry while covering a story in 1999, reveals how he donated bone marrow and how he heard from the recipient.
The alleged videotape made by Christie Brinkley's ex of him and his unknowing 18-year-old mistress may lead to criminal charges.
And in one of the saddest stories to come out of the recent economic downturn, Gray's Papaya is being forced to raise the price of their longtime Recession Special.

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By Billy Parker in Miscellaneous on October 18, 2008 7:51 PM

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longacre

Oh man, I worked in DUMBO a few years ago and that guy was always in the park...never got a tan. Apparently things never change.

ab_bklyn

I live two blocks from Bklyn Bridge Park and that guy is ALWAYS THERE when I go, and ALWAYS wearing the mustard-yellow thong. The scariest thing is that he's pasty white and yet it seems he spends all of his days sunbathing. He takes great care in slathering sunscreen all over his pudgy middle... must be SPF 100.

Tar_Baby

Isn't there a law against a man wearing something like that in public? And in yellow...

Jerky

Creepy old guy in yellow banana hammock. Yeah, like that makes me want to go the park ever again....

CR

Come morning time that picture is going to make my hangover even worse - thanks cocksuckers!

jterry121

So that scumbag Hedgefund guy is gloating that he got rich betting that the US economy would go into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression? I hope he dies painfully in a car crash.

NannyState

Andrew Lahde rocks! It must have taken a cast iron stomach and the balls of the gods to bet against all those Wall Street showmen. (then again, how crazy is it really to bet against showmen?) He won and he's biting down hard on the hand that feeds the economic bullshit. Now all I want is for George Bush to lose all of his money and to have his retirement pensions seized to pay the huge deficit.